Following up from the Sikkha Seminar on Leading Dharma Study and Discussion Groups Effectively Online, Ratnaguna and Danadasa, who led the seminar, have answered a number of questions from the seminar in the podcast below.

Here is eight different questions which they received from the seminar. If you are interested in a specific questions, the podcast timestamps are provide for each question. We hope you find this helpful!

(2:00 – 7:30) If there is the opportunity to choose, how many people would you have in a...

I’m writing on behalf of Future Dharma, in partnership with the Sikkha Project to invite you to an online webinar: Effective Fundraising for Triratna centres. The webinar will take place on Friday, June 12th at 9:30am (BST) and then again at 5pm (BST), taking into account the needs of the different time zones. We hope people from around the world will be able to participate.

Triratna has moved swiftly to respond to the Covid crisis, by offering online content...

I’m writing on behalf of the Sikkha Project to invite you to another Sikkha online training seminar: For the Benefit of All Beings: How to reach more people online, an exploration in how to use online communications such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram to reach out to new people. The seminar will include suggestions for YouTube, Instagram and Facebook advertising, as well as how to best use online platforms to draw people’s attention to your Triratna Centre, group or project.

In these sessions I have managed to communicate the vast proportion of my thinking on the Dharma developed over sixteen years of working on my book ‘Mindfulness: the undiscovered foundations,’ including topics such as ‘Buddhism and Science’ and ‘Secular Mindfulness.’ With help from Sangharadhara this work is now uploaded to YouTube in seven series. Please check out and subscribe to my channel ‘Compassionate response to Covid-19 with Mahabodhi’ if you wish to view this work:

“From the moment of a person’s first contact with our movement, he or she should be able to discover a balanced approach that is appropriate to them… The Karmic work of integration and developing positive emotion, and the Dharmic work of spiritual receptivity, death, and rebirth.

“The elements of the system… from the stage of Integration through to that of Spiritual Rebirth can be seen as the principal elements of the Dharma life at all stages, Indeed, if they are not practised at...